Resources

March 31, 2023

A viable market for sustainability-linked debt can address the triple challenge of public debt distress, climate...

September 7, 2022

The Sustainability-linked Sovereign Debt Hub (SSDH) creates both an inclusive cooperative space...

January 25, 2023

The Landscaping Review explores the role that credit enhancement can play in sustainability-linked sovereign debt.

October 29, 2022

This paper analyses Sustainability-Linked Bonds (SLBs) through a risk-neutral present value scenario approach...

April 5, 2022

This review illustrates how to price the optionality value in the SLB...

December 14, 2022

This blog from the World Bank discusses the future of sustainability-linked financing.

June 23, 2022

Biodiversity loss and environmental degradation can have material impact on sovereign creditworthiness. Current methodol

October 18, 2021

This report explores the global landscape of the Green, Social, Sustainability and Sustainability-linked (GSSS) Bond...

June 27, 2022

This blog is part one of a two-part blog series. This blog describes the Brazilian context and the difficulties with pur

March 3, 2022

Sovereign bond markets need to quickly and radically innovate in order to successfully integrate climate- and nature...

July 11, 2022

This report highlights the importance of integrating nature-related risks into debt sustainability frameworks for...

January 20, 2016

The objective of this report is to identify financial product structures that have the potential to establish...

January 18, 2022

The coronavirus pandemic has renewed interest in sustainable investing strategies that allow investors to both protect t

November 1, 2021

In November 2021, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Government of Belize (Belize) announced the completion of a...

June 28, 2022

This blog is part two of a two-part blog series. The previous blog describes the Brazilian context and the difficulties

March 23, 2022

The World Bank’s USD 150 million Wildlife Conservation Bond (WCB) is a first-of-its-kind outcome-based bond that...

January 6, 2022

A new World Bank report - Striking the Right Note : Key Performance Indicators for Sovereign Sustainability-Linked...

June 30, 2021

The Economic Case for Nature is part of a series of papers by the World Bank that lays out the economic rationale for...

June 1, 2020

Sustainability-Linked Bonds (“SLBs”) aim to further develop the key role that debt markets can play in funding...

July 29, 2021

Performance-based debt instruments have the potential to transform the way nature, climate and other sustainability...

February 1, 2021

Final Report of the Independent Review on the Economics of Biodiversity led by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta.

August 12, 2022

This paper compares debt-for-climate swaps—partial debt relief operations conditional on debtor commitments to undertake

March 1, 2018

In March 2018, as part of its Long Finance initiative, Z/Yen published the first edition of the Global Green Finance...

November 1, 2021

As countries grapple with the triple crisis of debt, climate change and nature loss, compounded by the impacts of the...